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| | EurAsiaWiki - Nes Faq 30 A |
 | | Tengen is also known for their Tetris games where it turned out that they actually dident have license to release it in the US. | | | Ironically, Tengen (the home game division of Atari Games) was the first third-party company to break Nintendo's lock-out code and went on to produce some pretty good versions of Atari's arcade games for the NES. | | | Tengen Pac-Man plays fine, as do all other NES games that I've picked up so far. |
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http://www.eurasia.nu/wiki/index.php?pagename=NesFaq30A
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| | videogame history |
| | Companies that are still in business cannot compete against the cheap games, so they wind up losing money because of unsold inventory. | | | Atari Games establishes Tengen, a subsidiary that produces games for home consoles. | | | Several companies sign on with Nintendo as third-party developers, and most of Atari's old supporters, such as Namco, are now making their best games for Nintendo's system. |
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http://tiger.towson.edu/users/rkohle1/mngtwebsite/videogamehistory.html
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| | RoyalRanger's NES Site - Zippidee-doo-da. Zippidee-ite. My, oh my, what a wonderful site. |
| | This company was the first to legally produce unlicensed games because they found a way to bypass the NES lockout chip themselves, instead of copying the key chip. | | | Nintendo, a Japanese company that had been founded in the late 1800's, became popular with their 1981 smash-hit arcade game, Donkey Kong (Japanese for "stupid gorilla"). | | | In 1988, a company called Tengen (a division of Atari Games) officially found a way to copy the NES key chip through emulation (Nintendo sued Tengen for copyright infringement because of this). |
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http://www.nes-site.com/aboutnes.shtml
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| | Tetris (Tengen) - Reader Review - GameFAQs |
| | After a court battle between Nintendo and Tengen that resulted in Tengen’s game being ruled illegal, many of the cartridges were destroyed and the game became a rarity and a curiosity. | | | Tengen’s Tetris delivers the same gameplay as Nintendo&, though it may take a few minutes to adjust to the fact that the blocks are all rendered as solid shapes as opposed to being sectioned off into squares. | | | Tengen Tetris is a wonderful game that gets promoted to classic status because of its 2-player mode. |
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/review/R49632.html
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| | ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week |
| | Tengen Tetris is actually much better than Nintendo's version: you can play against two players (either a friend or the computer) or with two players (either a friend or the computer). | | | Tengen, the home videogames division of Atari Games (not to be confused with Atari Corp., Atari Games was the Arcade division of Atari that split off the main company in the early 80's), was just like any other Nintendo licensee. | | | Then Tengen decided to think of a way to bypass Nintendo's "lockout chip" in NES games so they could manufacture games on their own (Nintendo manufactured all NES cartridges, no matter who developed them). |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/ttetris.shtml
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Unlicensed NES games. |
| | Tengen only made unlicensed carts because Nintendo kept denying them licenses for games they ADMITTED were damn good and well worth releasing. | | | At first Tengen made licensed games, then copied the chip and then sold unlicensed games. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=65229
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| | Sensei's Library: Tengen |
| | HandOfPaper : Tengen, like Atari, was the name of an electronic game company that existed in the 1980s. | | | Tengen is also the name given to one of the seven Japanese Big Titles (see Tengen - the title). | | | The tengen (天元, "origin of heaven") is the name given to the center point of the Go board. |
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http://senseis.xmp.net/?Tengen
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| | smackdown GT - 8-bit NES Nintendo |
| | Tengen then re-designed their games so that they did not resemble NES carts and began marketing them. | | | Atari Games bounced back around 1987, but had to change their name because they were blamed for almost destroying the video game market in the early eighties. | | | People in R&D took apart NES after NES and determined that the game and the lockout chip had to "communicate." As long as the chip reacted to what the game was "telling" it, everything went smoothly. |
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http://smackdown.myrmid.com/smackdown/info/random/tengen.php
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| | Third Party Company: Tengen |
| | Tengen was a subsidiary of Atari Games, Inc, makers of arcade games. | | | In 1984, Atari was split into two factions: Atari Corp., which was the home videogame division(7800, Jaguar, and Lynx), and Atari Games was the arcade division. | | | The battle between Nintendo and Tengen would drag on and on for years, while Tengen still made unlicensed games for the NES, including Rolling Thunder, Road Runner. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/babbage/317/3rdparty/tengen.html
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| | Tetris (1989/I) (VG) |
| | Tengen bypassed a lockout chip designed by Nintendo to block unauthorized third-party games (as it was announced that Tengen would make games for the NES behind Nintendo's back) and Tetris was among the games. | | | Tengen, a division owned by Atari that made games for third-party consoles (as a way to make money after Atari's unit was sold off by Warner Communications in 1984). | | | However, Tengen faced a lawsuit involving distribution of its own Tetris game. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207153/combined
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| | TNCA » Game Companies » Tengen |
| | Tengen made a very superior version of this game, and got the license from a company called Mirrorsoft UK--who had no right to give the license in the first place. | | | Form a new subsidiary of the parent company-- Tengen Games was born. | | | Nobody wanted anything to do with anything made by Atari. |
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http://tnca.myrmid.com/tengen.htm
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| | NES Player |
| | Nintendo set up strict guidelines to third-party companies wanting licenses to distribute their games on the NES. | | | In December 12, 1988, Tengen filed suit for $100 million against Nintendo claiming that they held a monopoly over the game industry. | | | Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco and later owner of Atari, created a sub-company of Atari called Tengen because of the corporation rights to the name Atari. |
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http://www.nesplayer.com/features/lawsuits/tengen.htm
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Atari, Atari Games and Atarisoft. |
| | In the 70's when Atari dominated the arcade market, they created another company called Kee Games, which existed solely to release Atari games under new names to make it seem like there was more competition than there was. | | | I never understood why Tengen was making games for the Lynx when the games were actually stuff owned by Atari! | | | Midway kept the company going as an independant arcade division, releasing home games under their own Midway label. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8469
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| | The Atari Timeline |
| | Tengen also announces the discovery of a way to create NES-compatable games that bypassed Nintendo's lock-out circuitry. | | | Dozens of companies begin making games for the Atari VCS. | | | Atari (a term from the Japanese game Go) was chosen after the first choice, "Syzygy," wasn't available. |
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http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/atari/Atari-Timeline.html
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| | smackdown GT - 8-bit NES Nintendo |
| | Tengen game company - The only article on this page that contains anything informative at all. | | | All you will find here is trivial facts and theories, or events that had something to do with these games. |
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http://www.smackdown.myrmid.com/smackdown/info/random/index.html
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| | Articles - Tetris |
| | Elorg, meanwhile, held that none of the companies were legally entitled to produce an arcade version, and promptly signed those rights over to Atari Games, while it signed console and handheld rights over to Nintendo. | | | Many people think that the Tengen version is a more playable port than the Nintendo version. |
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http://www.modruby.com/articles/Tetris
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Tengen and the 7800 |
| | From: Winter Haven, FL Tengen was created by Atari Games to get around the "no compete" clause they had with Atari Corp. Atari Games was not allowed to make home video games, so they did it under the Tengen label instead. | | | Still, a few games that would have been licensed from Tengen and Atari Games almost made it to the 7800, like KLAX and Pit Fighter. | | | For whatever reason, Tengen didn't see a reason to produce games for the 7800. |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=66474
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| | Timeline of video games |
| | Tengen releases an unlicensed version of the Tetris video game | | | Warner Communications' Atari Games Corp establishes the Tengen division | | | Ralph Baer, the future founder of the video game industry (and the handheld electronic game Simon), born in Germany |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/timeline_of_video_games
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| | WWW.NESWORLD.COM |
| | But Nintendo also made stores drop their stock of AVE games by sending out a letter stating that Nintendo wouldn't take any orders from a store if they carried unlicensed games, and that scared off most retailers as there was good money in the video game sale. | | | Richard was at Atari's Tengen, they had just started shipping their unlicensed NES version PacMan and several other titles. | | | Richard came from a company called ShareData, who later formed a subsidiary called American Game Carts Inc., where he helped make a NES version of the Exidy arcade game called Chiller. |
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http://www.nesworld.com/ave.htm
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| | The video game celebrates its 18th birthday this year, and Atari Games, the company that started it all with Pong, is still going strong. | | | For this reason, he only bought the computing arm of the company (known as Atari Corporation), leaving Atari Games as a separate company. | | | For this reason, Atari Games came up with its own publishing label - Tengen, which again comes from the board game Go. |
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http://www.atari7800.com/frames/documents_articles_inside.htm
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| | Kinox Articles: Tetris, a puzzle of real life? |
| | Maxwell was unaware that his own company gave some rights to Atari Games until he reads Mirrorsoft's name on the cartridge. | | | In all likelihood they were bulldozed since Tengen could not legally get rid of them any other way. | | | Nintendo's argument was more to the point: the Russians at ELORG had never had the intention of selling the video game rights to Tetris ; the definition of "computer" in Stein's contract proved it. |
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http://www.kinox.org/articles/tetris.html
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| | Epinions.com - Why I Dislike Nintendo (Nintendo W/O) |
| | Meanwhile, Tengen produced games and retailers were selling them...and Tengen was keeping up with the sales, disproving the “microchip shortage” ploy Nintendo was playing. | | | There was a microchip shortage and any licensee’s estimated number of chips needed to make games was usually cut by half and most likely by 75%. | | | Yamauchi cared little for retailers, especially American ones, and anyone who dared to stand up or go up against Nintendo. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_2764546180
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| | Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired? |
| | I might point out that Tengen was a subsidiary of Atari Games that published/produced games for the home market. | | | PatMan boldly stated: > >This is a somewhat similar policy that Nintendo had with the NES -- the >games required "lockout" chips to run on the machine (I believe one >company -- Tengen, I think -- found a way to get around this lockout >on their system) Yes, it was Tengen. | | | This was a result of the breakup of Atari, Inc. to Atari Corp. and Atari Games.) The whole episode of Tengen and the NES lockout chips is detailed in _Game Over_ by David Sheff (hard cover ISBN 0-679-40469-4; paperback ISBN 0-679-73622-0). |
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http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199801/msg00246.html
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| | Battle #29: Nintendo Tetris VS Tengen Tetris |
| | Tengen Tetris: Ya know, I was wondering the same thing. | | | Tengen Tetris: Very impressive, but it cannot handle match our excellent 2-player mode. | | | We're going to try to reactivate the company and create innovative games again. |
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http://www.nesdays.com/battle29.html
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| | Atari, a game company, started to illegally manufacture cartrdiges for NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) under the assumed name of Tengen.(2001-2004) Atari however took it too far when they were maufacturing Tetris, which was owned by Nintendo. | | | When Sega Genesis came out with a 18-bit video game, they thought that since their company was untouchable their 6-bit would go still make it. | | | Atari not having knowledge of this took Nintendo to court based on the premise that Nintendo was trying to become a monopoly by trying to make any company that wanted to create games for Nintendo, use ONLY Nintendo. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~hgezache/mfinal.html
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| | Bryan C.Wilkinson: Further Game Products |
| | Tengen space combat game for the Sega Genesis | | | My first graphics job in the game industry was as a Production Design Assistant on a never-released Sega Genesis game from Tengen, loosely inspired by "Star Raiders" and other titles under the simple working title of "Space Hero". | | | Pioneer/Sierra anime adventure game for the PC While at Sierra On-Line and working on Leisure Suit Larry, I noticed that Sierra had formed a joint venture with Pioneer. |
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http://www.rockettubes.net/bryanwilkinson/othergames.html
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| | The management of this Company has chosen to make this plan available to all the employees of Atari Games beginning in 1992 on a modified basis. | | | They were meant in the spirit of fun and were not meant to be insulting or disrespectful to any individual or the Atari Games company. | | | I believe one of the >>founders or designers of the original Atari (company, game, >>whatever), later founded another company called "Sente" which >>is something like "checkmate". |
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http://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/Vax92.txt
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| | NES WORLD: NES RELATED LAWSUITS |
| | Nintendo did their best to keep unlicensed companies from getting a piece of the cake, by changing the lockout chip code, a chip placed in the NES which made sure that those who didn't pay Nintendo to manufacture and test the games wouldn't be able to run their games on the NES system. | | | Nintendo sues Tengen, a subsidairy of Atari Games, in 1989 for creating a releasing a version of Tetris for the NES without having the license to do so, though Tengen thought they did. | | | The other idea was to sue unlicensed companies for copyright infrigement, though they knew they woulden't win, but if they could make the unlicensed spend a lot of money on lawyers and so on, they would have less to spend on game development, and would probably be out of business. |
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http://www.nesworld.com/lawsuits.htm
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| | In addition both Atari Games Corp through its Tengen division and Nintendo released Tetris for the American market. | | | Atari Games Corp(separate from Atari Corp) was sued by Nintendo for making cartridges for its system without proper licensing. | | | Over the years Atari in all of its various forms has been involved in many lawsuits. |
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http://www.movieprop.com/videogames/atari/lawsuits.htm
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| | Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired? |
| | On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, PatMan wrote: > This is a somewhat similar policy that Nintendo had with the NES -- the > games required "lockout" chips to run on the machine (I believe one > company -- Tengen, I think -- found a way to get around this lockout > on their system) Tengen. |
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http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/199801/msg00245.html
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| | A History of Nintendo Lawsuits |
| | Case: Nintendo is sued by MCA (the motion picture company) for allegidly copyright infringement, over the title of Nintendo's then-new hit game, "Donkey Kong", claiming that the name was too similar to MCA's "King Kong". | | | Outcome: Unsure, but Nintendo failed in their suit, and Color Dreams continued to produce unlicensed games. | | | Case: Nintendo sues Color Dreams for producing NES games without an official license. |
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http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/oddities/nintendosuits.html
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| | Springs Go Club - About Go |
| | One of the earliest written references to Go as a game that survives is in the writings of Confucius in his work Analects circa the 6th Century B.C.E. wherein he states, "Are there not gamblers and Go players? | | | This later theory is further supported by much of the terminology surrounding Go that has survived the years right along with the game itself; the most obvious terms being 'Star Point' (more formally called 'Hoshi'), and 'Axis of Heaven' (better known as 'Tengen'). | | | Additional evidence suggests that Go began as a tool of Emperors and shamans used for divination. |
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http://www.csgo.org/about/history.php
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| | RetroGaming Times Monthly 1 |
| | The game scross up and down as you go from the upper and lower parts. | | | The sprites don't look very good, and the mazes don't look like the arcade game at all. | | | If you read most of last month's Retrogaming Times Atari 2600 reviews, then you know that Xype programmers have made some pretty darn good homebrews. |
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http://my.stratos.net/%7Ehewston95/RTM01/RTM01.html
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| | Shinobi - Reader Review - GameFAQs |
| | This is a lot easier than either version of Shinobi I ever played, must have something to do with that quality Tengen programming. | | | As long as you don't bump into any of the enemies the level possess very little challenge and bosses usually only require you to memorize a simple pattern. | | | As far as ports go the NES version was, politely put, below average. |
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/review/R25188.html
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| | Atari company history |
| | In the end, they canceled their remaining hardware projects (mostly the Jaguar game system) and were sitting on about $50,000,000 in cash (mostly from a successful lawsuit against Sega). | | | Warner divides Atari Inc. Home division (Atari Corp.) is sold to Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder. | | | Arcade division (Atari Games/Tengen) becomes its own company. |
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http://www.thocp.net/companies/atari/atari_company.htm
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| | UVL - Company detail for Tengen |
| | - in the ' release chart ' table, clicking the year tag will make a search for the games produced by Tengen in the selected year. | | | - in the ' platforms developed on ' table, clicking the platform name will make a search for all the games produced by Tengen for that platform. | | | - the small graph under the company name is a timeline which range from 1970 to 2005, where the blue part show the period the company actually worked (sort of). |
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http://www.uvlist.com/company-Tengen-339
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| | Tetris (Tengen) - Reader Review - GameFAQs |
| | If you just happened to stumble upon this game while browsing GameFAQS, you may be wondering, “WTF is TENGEN Tetris?&; Basically, it was a version of Tetris released for the NES that was manufactured by a company called *gasp* Tengen. | | | They had become annoyed with Nintendo& licensing restrictions on them and decided to manufacture their own cartridges (no matter what company created a game, Nintendo always manufactured the cartridges) for their NES games. | | | Nintendo sues Tengen, Tengen is forced to remove their Tetris game from the shelves and DESTROY any copies that were not yet sold only a month after the game& release. |
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/review/R82970.html
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| | Tengen Group Co.,Ltd.LR2,3UA,LR1,TH-K,T SERIES THERNMAL RELAYS,MINIATURE RELAYS AND THE MATCHED SOCKET. |
| | It listed the 28th in Chinese 500 Stronger Enterprises.We specially make full series of electrical appliances. | | | Tengen Group Co.,Ltd.LR2,3UA,LR1,TH-K,T SERIES THERNMAL RELAYS,MINIATURE RELAYS AND THE MATCHED SOCKET. | | | CHINA TENGEN GROUP CO.LTD.,is one of the most respected nation-wide manufacturers of low voltage electrical products in P.R of china. |
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http://www.chinaexporter.com.cn/com/28876.htm
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